GEO-BASED DETECTION OF BORDER VIOLATION

• US 20150099547A1
• Filed: 10/06/2014
• Published: 04/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GeoComply Limited
• Original Assignee: GeoComply Limited
• Inventors: Sainsbury, Anna
• Application Number:
  US14/507,723
• Publication Number:
  US 20150099547A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0027 of actual mobile position, i.e. position determined on mobile
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/88 Detecting or preventing theft or loss
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

An initial geo-location may be determined for a user of a web service from the user'"'"'s connection data to establish if it is a mobile connection or not. Once the connection is identified as mobile or static and the user'"'"'s location is known, the closest border and/or territory which is blocked to the user and within the geo-restricted area is determined. A future time at which the user'"'"'s geo-location should be re-determined is then calculated using a variety of formula based on the connection type, location and distance to the border. The resulting calculation of desired future time of re-geolocation may be based on the user'"'"'s current location, the distance to the nearest border, an estimated velocity at which the user may be moving, rules associated with the web-service, parameters set by an administrator and other factors

Claims

1. A method for determining a geographical location, comprising:

establishing a connection between a web-service provided by a remote server and a device;

determining a first location of the device by an application executing on the device, the first location being a current location at a first period of time;

determining a distance between the device and a geographical border;

calculating a first time period for the device to travel from the first location to the geographical border;

setting a time interval at which to determine an updated location for the device, the time interval less than the first time period.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the time interval at which the second location is determined is based on the first location and a geographic boundary associated with the web-service.

3. The method of claim 1, where in the distance is determined as a straight line.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the time interval is determined by calculating the distance traveled by the device at a first velocity.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the velocity is based on a roadway speed limit.

6. The method of claim 1, determining as second location of the device by the application at the time interval, the second location being a current location at a second point in time,

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the web-service is a geographically restricted web service.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a time at which to update the location of the device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the first location includes determining a first location using primary geolocation data and a second location using secondary geolocation data.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining if any process running on the device matches an entry in a list of forbidden running processes.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the list of running processes includes running processes used to provide in false geolocation data.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a connection type to be either static or mobile.

13. The method of claim 12, assigning a risk to the device based on the connection type.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the device is a mobile device.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the device connects to the webs service via a tongle which accesses a cellular network.

16. A computer readable non-transitory storage medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor to perform a method for determining a geographical location, the method comprising

establishing a connection between a web-service provided by a remote server and a device;

determining a first location of the device by an application executing on the device, the first location being a current location at a first period of time;

determining as second location of the device by the application, the second location being a current location at a second period of time,

wherein the time at which the second location is determined is based on the first location and a geographic boundary associated with the web-service.

17. A system for determining a geographical location, the system including:

a processor;

a memory;

an application stored in memory and executed by the processor to establish a connection between a web-service provided by a remote server and a device, determine a first location of the device by an application executing on the device, the first location being a current location at a first period of time, determine as second location of the device by the application, the second location being a current location at a second period of time, wherein the time at which the second location is determined is based on the first location and a geographic boundary associated with the web-service.